Gullikson to Make Rare Appearance on the Champions Tour This Week

By BILL DWYRE

Sept. 26, 1995 12 AM PT

Tom Gullikson, the U.S. Davis Cup captain, will be among those senior players competing tonight through Sunday in a Champions tour event at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks.

Gullikson, an infrequent competitor on the tour that has been dominated from its inception two years ago by Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg, will open against John Lloyd on Wednesday night.

Opening matches tonight, starting at 7:30, will pit Mel Purcell against Tim Wilkison and Jose-Luis Clerc against Peter Fleming. Borg will play his first match Thursday night, Connors Friday night. The final will be played at 1 p.m. Sunday.

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Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre was a three-times-weekly sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 2006-15. Before that, he was sports editor of the paper for 25 years. Dwyre was named national editor of the year by the National Press Foundation in 1985 for the paper’s coverage of the ’84 Olympics and winner of the Red Smith Award in 1996 by the Associated Press Sports Editors for sustained excellence in sports journalism. He was sports editor of the Milwaukee Journal from 1973 to 1981, when he joined The Times. Dwyre was named National Headliner Award winner in 1985, sportswriter of the year in Wisconsin in 1980 and sportswriter of the year in California in 2009.

Gullikson to Make Rare Appearance on the Champions Tour This Week

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